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Showing 1 to 20 of 141 for “"thirteenth-century"”.
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Roesia De Verdun, Thirteenth Century Femme Sole
This thesis explores the life and legacy of Roesia de Verdun (c. 1204 – 1247), an Anglo-Norman noblewoman whose strategic marriages, assertive widowhood, and material patronage illuminate the complex roles available to medieval women navigating power and identity. Divided into three parts, the …
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French Vocabulary Influences in Some Thirteenth-Century English Works
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O, Beastly Jew!: Allegorical Anti-Judaism in Thirteenth Century English Bestiaries
… of the Anglo Jewish population. In the thirteenth century, the bestiary experienced a final flourish during which the imagery and text of certain entries, which allegorized Jews, Judaism, and the Old Testament, were amended and amplified. During the first quarter of the century, a …
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Thietmar : person, place and text in thirteenth-century Holy Land pilgrimage
… of a single pilgrimage account from the early thirteenth century. The account in question was written by a certain Thietmar, who travelled to the Holy Land in 1217, and is well known for its frequent references to interactions with the indigenous Christian and non-Christian inhabitants of the …
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Naming Particulars: A Thirteenth-Century Debate on Whether Individuals Have Proper Names
… dissertation is about a debate that occurred in thirteenth-century philosophy over an apparently bizarre question: Can individuals really have proper names? While scholarly studies have appeared previously on philosophers in the fourteenth century who discussed this question (most notably John …
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"A Latin translation of the ""Rhetorica ad Alexandrum"" from the thirteenth century"
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The archaeobotany of Mutamba, a thirteenth century Mapungubwe settlement in northern South Africa
The focus of this research is on Mutamba, a 13th century Middle Iron Age (MIA) settlement situated in the Soutpansberg, South Africa and is the first archaeobotanical study of a MIA settlement. Many communities of this time were agro-pastoralists cultivating crops such as sorghum, millets and …
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Humour in vernacular hagiography from the tenth to the thirteenth century in England
… circulating from the late tenth to the late thirteenth century in England. Although humour has often been acknowledged in hagiographic narratives as either a given standard or as a non sequitur, to date there exists no sustained study accounting for its presence. My thesis first identifies …
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Dialogue and dialectic in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Occitan and old French courtly lyric and narrative
… of the courtly subject in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Old French and Occitan lyric and narrative. It considers how debate and dialogue are informed by dialectic, which acts as a structural and thematic frame and gives courtly debate its distinctive oppositional tone. I argue that …
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Networks and narratives: the 'Liber Exemplorum' and the intellectual milieu of the Franciscan order in thirteenth-century Ireland
… and lived in Ireland in the second half of the thirteenth century. The LE has been previously known only from an incomplete fourteenth-century copy of the text found in Durham Cathedral Library MS B.IV.19, but recent research has uncovered a more complete fifteenth-century copy found in …
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Expanded Universes: Reading French Literature of the Long Thirteenth Century with Twentieth and Twenty-First Century American Comics and Fandom Practices
… hyperdiegetic universes in the long thirteenth and twentieth centuries through analysis of their formal and affective composition. The thesis is composed of two case-studies in three chapters. The first part reads Arthurian romance alongside comics theory and Marvel comics. …
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An examination of a Thirteenth-Century Treatise on the Mind/Body Dichotomy: Jean de La Rochelle on the Soul and its Powers
This thesis examines the Summa de anima of a thirteenth-century writer, Jean de la Rochelle (1190/1200-1245), a philosopher and theologian of the Franciscan Order. The importance of the text lies in the fact that it was written at the very early stages of the changes that took place as a …
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